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The pillars to the running community are these businesses powered by their passion to keep you active.
MAKE LIVES BETTER
Mission: To provide quality care and create a healthier community. OrthoCarolina is one of the nation’s leading independent academic orthopedics practices serving the Southeast since 1922. Over 300 OrthoCarolina providers see more than one million patient visits across North and South Carolina each year.
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GROW THE GOOD
The Albemarle Foundation supports individuals and our collective global team in making a profound impact in the communities where we live and work. Together we’re striving to power the giving potential of our employees to make our communities more prosperous, healthy, and vibrant – simply put, we are Growing the Good! The Albemarle Foundation provides direct funding to local 501(c)(3) organizations engaged in at least one of these areas: education, social and health services, or cultural resources. To date, we have granted over $33 million into our communities.
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THE BEER ON EVERYONE’S LIPS
NoDa Brewing was created out of our love for great craft beer and desire to share with all our friends in the Queen City & surrounding areas. At NoDa Brewing, we’ve noticed things just seem to happen when there’s beer involved. And we like it that way.
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LOVE US FOR LIFE
Williams Subaru is Charlotte’s premier new and used Subaru dealership. They are a part of the Williams Automotive Group, which has been serving North Carolina and South Carolina customers as a locally operated and family owned business since 1937. They are proud to offer a Lifetime Warranty with every new Subaru sold, and offer Express Service for customers’ convenience. Bring your pets with you when you shop, they are one of Charlotte’s only dog-friendly dealerships!
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ON YOUR SIDE
WBTV is celebrating 70 years on the air since becoming the first television station to sign on in the Carolinas. WBTV News is currently considered the “most trustworthy source of news and information” according to local audience research and WBTV First Alert Weather is the certified most accurate forecast in the area as measured by WeatherRate. Being “On Your Side” for viewers, clients and the community is a guiding principle of WBTV and helps drive its award-winning newscasts and quality local journalism.
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POWERING THE HERO WITHIN
Dole Food Company’s worldwide team of growers, packers, processors, shippers and employees is committed to consistently providing safe, high-quality fresh fruit, vegetables, and food products, while protecting the environment in which its products are grown and processed.
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WE ARE CHANGE EXPERTS
We’re what happens when you cross a tech start-up with a rapidly growing global company. To our customers, we’re a portfolio of digital businesses that connect brands and consumers. To our employees, we’re a launchpad for fast-tracked careers in marketing, technology, and sales.
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BUILDING COMMUNITIES. BETTERING PEOPLE’S LIVES.
Crescent Communities is a nationally recognized, market-leading real estate investor, developer and operator of multifamily, commercial and mixed use communities. Crescent creates high-quality, differentiated communities in many of the fastest growing markets in the Southeast and Southwest. Since 1963, Crescent’s development portfolio has included more than 55 multifamily communities, 20 million square feet of commercial space and 60 single family master-planned communities.
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THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
Our mission is to create the best, most environmentally friendly and socially responsible products possible, and to educate and inspire those around us to live and work for a sustainable tomorrow. Recover was created as a result of serendipity, innovation amidst circumstance, and the shared love of the outdoors.
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WATER FIRST FOR THIRST
Drinking water is essential to life, and drinking more water is a simple way to improve health. The I Heart Water initiative goal is to lower the County’s rates of chronic disease & obesity by encouraging residents to adopt water as their go-to drink for life, work and play.
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CHARLOTTE WATER
Charlotte Water is the largest public water and wastewater utility in the Carolinas, serving more than a million customers in the City of Charlotte and greater Mecklenburg County — including the towns of Matthews, Mint Hill, Pineville, Huntersville, Davidson, and Cornelius.
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PROTECTING AND PROMOTING THE PUBLIC’S HEALTH
The Mecklenburg County Health Department assures the health and safety of our diverse and changing community today and for future generations. The vision is to promote and protect the public’s health by managing public and environmental health activities in Mecklenburg County pursuant to Chapter 130A-41 of the General Statutes of North Carolina.
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BANKING HANDCRAFTED
We are the local bank handcrafting meaningful experiences to improve the financial health of our community in the Carolinas.
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CHARLOTTE’S LARGEST INDEPENDENT COWORKING SPACE
Pronounced hoo-ga coworking. We are striving to be Charlotte’s biggest coworking community of people building awesome things. We see success in people working side-by-side every day. The accountability is what drives us to show up every day.
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BRIGHT IDEAS, BRILLIANT EXECUTION
well-run media + marketing lets you focus on the stuff you do best. We get up in there and learn your business, your needs, your customers and your market. We ask lots of questions. We listen. We find out where your customers look, listen and learn, and meet them there with creative, engaging media, that keeps you and your brand top-of-mind. It’s more than “marketing”. We start conversations. We listen more. We build relationships. Isn’t that the way it’s supposed to be?
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PERSONAL CONNECTION IN A DIGITAL WORLD
We help you grow your digital footprint and connect with a new audiences. From structured social media campaigns to brand identity development we’re here to help
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WE ARE DIGITAL STORYTELLERS
In an industry of artists, we are not. We don’t create art, we capture moments and develop content. Creativity is our business. Our goal is not to have The Littlefield Company just be a great product, but an amazing collective of people who huddle together to be a meaningful part of society.
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